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"Gad--a troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcoe and saw only a thin darkness The high walls made pits of shade at the foot, but above there was a ht which showed the spectres of rock and bush in the nullah beyond It was all but dark, and the stars were coleae boulder had fallen and left a passage not two yards wide Beyond there was a sharp descent of a dozen feet to the gravelled bottoes to the other watershed Here was a place made by nature for his plans With iest stones he could e, so that they were poised above the slope He tried the great boulder, too, with his shoulders, and it seeht be sent crashing down the incline, and by the blessing of God it should account for its ht his rifles forward to the stones, loaded thees easy in his pocket They were for the thirty-yards range; his pistol would be kept for closer quarters He tried one after the other, cuddling the stocks to his cheek They were all dear-loved weapons, used in deer-stalking at home and on many a wilder beat He knew the tricks of each, and he had little pet devices laughed at by his friends This one had clattered down fifty feet of rock in Ross-shire as the scars on the stock bore witness, and another had his initials burned in the wood, the relic of a winter's night in a Finnish cahts and scents and sounds of forgotten places, the zest of toil and escapade, the joy of food and warmth and rest Well! he had lived, had tasted to the full the joys of the old earth, the kindly htlessly many times, and now the Ancient Ene A phrase ran in his head, so books, which spoke of death co easily to one "who has walked steadfastly in the direction of his dreaht to a creature of moods and fancies He had failed, doubtless, but he had ever kept sootten In all his weakness he had never betrayed this ultimate Desire of the Heart